Curriculum vitae

Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki

Career

04/2009 - heute	Distinguished Professor, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
11/1999 - heute	Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
08/1998	Appointed Professor, University of Oulu, Finland
10/1992	Appointed Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
01/1992	Appointed Senior Research Associate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
12/1989 - 12/1991	Post-Doctoral Research Associate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
11/1987 - 11/1989	Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, Scotland
10/1992	Habilitation and Venia Legendi for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
10/1987	Doctorate in Natural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
10/1982	Diploma in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (corresponds to a Master of Science)

Honors & Awards

2017	Honorary Doctore, University of Oulu, Finland
2016	Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), worth 2.4 Millionen Euro
2016	Distinguished Science Award of the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
2015	Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geoscience Union (EGU)
2012	Group Achievement Award of NASA for the SDO Science Investigation Team
2005	Elected Associate of The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
2004 - heute	Annually invited by the Nobel Foundation to make nominations for the Nobel Prize Prize in Physics and invited by the Crawford Foundation to make nominations for the Crawford Prize in Astronomy
2003	Honorary Professorship, University of Braunschweig, Germany
2001	Honorary Professorship, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1999	3rdMinnaert Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Named Lectures

2018	Svein Rosseland Lecturer, University of Oslo, Norway
2015	Julius Bartels Lecturer, Gerneral Assembly of EGU, Vienna, Austria
2012	Littrow Lecturer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2008	Bernard Price Lecturer, University of Johannesburg and South African Institute of Electrical Engineering, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002	Harold Jeffrey’s Lecturer of the RAS
1999	Minneart Lecturer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Memberships of Scientific Societies (Auswahl)

European Geosciences Union (EGU), German Astronomical Society (AG), European Astronomical Society (EAS), Assosiate of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), International Astonomical Union (IAU) of Division 2, Swiss Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics (SSAA/SGAA)

Service to the Scientific Communitiy (Auswahl)

Present and past Member of various Scientific Advisory Commitees, e.g. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain; High Altitude Observatory (HAO), NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA; Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno (IRSOL), Locarno, Switzerland; Science Committees of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland, European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC), HQ Paris, France

Head of Evaluation Board of the entire Space Segment of DLR, the German Aerospace Center

Member of the Next Generation Solar Physics Mission" Science Objectives Team of ESA, NASA and JAXA

Editor in Chief and Founder of "Living Reviews in Solar Physics"

Editorial Board Member of the refereed journal "Solar Physics"

National Representative to the Scientific Committee for Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)

Present and past Member of numerous Committees of DLR, e.g., Permanent Representative of the Max Planck Society in the DLR Senate, Chairman of the DLR Space Research Programme Committee, Member of the DLR Space Commission

Space and Instrument Projects (Auswahl)

Principal Investigator

2007 - heute	Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on Solar Orbiter (SO/PHI)
2001 - heute	Sunrise Balloon-Borne Solar Observatory (whole mission)

Co-Investigator

2008 - heute	Gregor Solar Telescope
2008 - heute	CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST)
2007 - heute	EUI, SPICE and Metis instrumens on Solar Orbiter
2001 - heute	Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO)

Grants

Total Project Grants of 60 Million Euro as Principal Investigator since 2002. Obtained from the European Research Council (ERC), German Space Agency (DLR), the German Science Foundation (DFG), Max Planck Foundation (MPF), Max Planck Society (MPG), Italian Space Agency (ASI), Private Donations, etc.

Teaching and Supervision

2002 - heute	Founder and Spokesperson of the International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen. This research school has so far produced 192 PhDs
1990 - heute	Supervision of 45 PhD students with completed theses (main supervisor of 28) and of 9 current PhD students
1990 - heute	Lecture courses held since 1990 at various Universities (ETH Zürich, Switzerland; University of Utrecht, Netherlands; Universities of Göttingen and of Braunschweig, Germany, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea)
12	Summer and Winter Schools at which lecture courses were given, excluding Schools organized by the IMPRS